Looking for a fountain of youth? You may need to search no further than your sneakers. Exercise, particularly high-intensity interval training, encourages your cells to make more proteins to feed their energy-producing machinery — and this arrests the aging process, according to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Cell Metabolism. “Any exercise is better […]
Exercise is better than any medication a doctor can prescribe for chronic disease. This knowledge should be intuitive to physicians and patients, and yet we have an ever-increasing population who either do not exercise at all or don’t exercise enough. Multiple studies year after year continue to show the detrimental impact that physical inactivity can […]
Lack of exercise is a direct contributor of heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, stroke and other chronic diseases. Yet, more than half of adults do not the meet national guidelines for physical activity, said Dr. Jerry Youkey, dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. It’s a problem that USC, the Greenville […]
(CNN)On Friday, Weill Cornell Medical College offered a seminar to its second-year medical students, one that’s been offered only once before. The focus wasn’t cutting-edge pharmacology or modern microbiology but instead, five lecturers exploring different facets of a single topic: “Prescribing the Medicine of Exercise.” This isn’t as typical as you might think. More than […]
GREENVILLE, SC – Lack of exercise isn’t just a matter of being a couch potato, it’s frequently a direct contributor to chronic diseases that kill more than 1.7 million Americans every year and cost more than $24 billion in healthcare expenditures. Now, from the heart of the stroke belt, comes a first-in-nation coalition that brings […]
Newswise — (Indianapolis)- To jointly address the rapid progression of chronic diseases and skyrocketing health care costs, Exercise is Medicine®(EIM), a global health initiative managed by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), along with the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and the Medical Fitness Association (MFA) today announced a new collaboration called the Exercise […]